What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls?

Re:What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls? by dccoolgai on Friday August 03, 2018 @07:34PM (#17684422)

New idea for a service: I patent troll your startup with an obvious bad patent. You pay me a very small fee and I lose the case on purpose. On paper you look like you fight back hard, so no other trolls bother you. Company name: troll armor.

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Re:What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls? by icebraining on Friday August 03, 2018 @08:09PM (#17684564)

Cool idea; a kind of Batesian mimicry[1] to avoid legal predators.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batesian_mimicry

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Re:What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls? by JackRW on Saturday August 04, 2018 @10:38AM (#17687002)

funny. Sadly, probably won't work because courts require an actual case or controversy.

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Re:What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls? by progfix on Saturday August 04, 2018 @05:25AM (#17686092)

Is losing a case on purpose illegal?

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Re:What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls? by gt_ on Friday August 03, 2018 @09:19PM (#17684867)

Go right ahead, give it a try. I patented this in ‘98.

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Re:What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls? by delinka on Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:31AM (#17686609)

patent expires this year, yay!

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Re:What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls? by gt_ on Saturday August 04, 2018 @11:50AM (#17687292)

Good one haha

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